Bay Area folks: We would love you to join us on April 23rd from 3-5 pm for a party/fundraiser hosted by Moira Brennan and Jonathan Frieman in San Rafael. We will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Michael Nagler’s “Search for a Nonviolent Future” with music, refreshments and a network of community members working with determination… read more
Past Events
“Human Rights in the Age of Climate” Panel at the Ella Baker Center, May 2010
A panel discussion on human rights, climate change, and building a movement to shift us from crisis to healing. Featuring Dr. Michael Nagler, Evelyn Rangel Medina, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Reverend Philip Lawson, and Pano Kroko, recorded on May 21, 2010 at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California. Continue reading for video… read more
Human Rights in the Age of Climate
Activist Pano Kroko joined us for the Hope Tank on Friday, March 19, 2010, to discuss civil rights in the age of climate change. Couldn’t be there in person? Click here for audio of the discussion!… read more
Anarchism and Nonviolence: Exploring Common Ground
This event took place at the Metta Center on Sunday, March 14, 2010. The full audio of the workshop is now available here: Please see the rest of the original event announcement, below, for more information and related resources!… read more
Nonviolence and the Red Juvenil
Please join us on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:00pm at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley for a talk by Colombia’s courageous lawyer Adriana Castaño Roman, youth activist and human rights defender, activist with the Medellín Youth Network since 1996. The Medellín Youth Network (www.redjuvenil.org) is a youth organization that operates explicitly on principles… read more
Orange Revolution Film Event
On Wednesday, Dec. 16th, Metta is hosting a preview screening of The Orange Revolution, at the USF campus in San Francisco, (click here, or the image at right, for a larger view of the poster. More about the film here.) Please join us at 7pm in Cowell Hall room 133. After the (refreshments and) screening, … read more
“Amma” Krishnammal Jagannathan at The Metta Center
Krishnammal Jagannathan, known as “Amma” (“Mom”) spent some days with Gandhi and sang songs at his independence protests. After marriage, she joined Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan movement to walk tens of thousands of miles for the landless. In 1959, she hosted a visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2008, for holding the beacon of Gandhian legacy… read more